# List of ministers of internal affairs of Russia

This is a list of ministers of internal affairs of Russia.

## Russian Empire

| Minister | Term of office | Term of office | Emperor |
| Viktor Kochubey | 8 September 1802 | 24 November 1807 | Alexander I |
| Prince Aleksey Kurakin | 24 November 1807 | 31 March 1810 | Alexander I |
| Osip Kozodavlev | 31 March 1810 | 24 June 1819 | Alexander I |
| Prince Alexander Golitsyn | 24 June 1819 | 4 November 1819 | Alexander I |
| Viktor Kochubey | 4 November 1819 | 28 June 1823 | Alexander I |
| Baron Balthasar von Campenhausen | 28 June 1823 | 29 August 1823 | Alexander I |
| Vasily Stepanovich Lanskoy | 29 August 1823 | 19 April 1828 | Alexander I |
| Vasily Stepanovich Lanskoy | 29 August 1823 | 19 April 1828 | Nicholas I |
| Count Arseny Zakrevsky | 19 April 1828 | 19 November 1831 | Nicholas I |
| Count Dmitry Bludov | 12 February 1832 | 15 February 1839 | Nicholas I |
| Count Alexander Stroganov | 10 March 1839 | 23 September 1841 | Nicholas I |
| Count Lev Perovsky | 23 September 1841 | 30 August 1852 | Nicholas I |
| Dmitry Bibikov | 30 August 1852 | 20 August 1855 | Nicholas I |
| Dmitry Bibikov | 30 August 1852 | 20 August 1855 | Alexander II |
| Sergey Stepanovich Lanskoy | 20 August 1855 | 23 April 1861 | Alexander II |
| Pyotr Valuev | 23 April 1861 | 9 March 1868 | Alexander II |
| Alexander Timashev | 9 March 1868 | 27 November 1878 | Alexander II |
| Lev Makov | 27 November 1878 | 6 August 1880 | Alexander II |
| Count Mikhail Loris-Melikov | 6 August 1880 | 4 May 1881 | Alexander II |
| Count Mikhail Loris-Melikov | 6 August 1880 | 4 May 1881 | Alexander III |
| Nikolay Ignatyev | 4 May 1881 | 30 May 1882 | Alexander III |
| Count Dmitry Tolstoy | 30 May 1882 | 25 April 1889 | Alexander III |
| Ivan Durnovo | 28 April 1889 | 15 October 1895 | Alexander III |
| Ivan Durnovo | 28 April 1889 | 15 October 1895 | Nicholas II |
| Ivan Goremykin | 15 October 1895 | 20 October 1899 | Nicholas II |
| Dmitry Sipyagin | 20 October 1899 | 2 April 1902 | Nicholas II |
| Vyacheslav von Plehve | 4 April 1902 | 15 July 1904 | Nicholas II |
| Prince Pyotr Sviatopolk-Mirsky | 26 August 1904 | 18 January 1905 | Nicholas II |
| Alexander Bulygin | 20 January 1905 | 22 October 1905 | Nicholas II |
| Pyotr Durnovo | 23 October 1905 | 22 April 1906 | Nicholas II |
| Pyotr Stolypin | 26 April 1906 | 5 September 1911 | Nicholas II |
| Alexander Makarov | 20 September 1911 | 16 December 1912 | Nicholas II |
| Nikolay Maklakov | 16 December 1912 | 5 June 1915 | Nicholas II |
| Prince Nikolay Shcherbatov | 5 June 1915 | 26 September 1915 | Nicholas II |
| Alexey Khvostov | 26 September 1915 | 3 March 1916 | Nicholas II |
| Boris Stürmer | 3 March 1916 | 7 July 1916 | Nicholas II |
| Alexander Khvostov | 7 July 1916 | 16 September 1916 | Nicholas II |
| Alexander Protopopov | 16 September 1916 | 28 February 1917 | Nicholas II |

## Provisional Government/Russian Republic

| Minister | Party | Term of office | Term of office | Prime Minister |
| Prince Georgy Lvov | Constitutional Democratic Party | 15 March 1917 | 20 July 1917 | Georgy Lvov |
| Irakli Tsereteli | Social Democratic Labour Party (Menshevik) | 23 July 1917 | 6 August 1917 | Alexander Kerensky |
| Nikolai Avksentiev | Socialist Revolutionary Party | 7 August 1917 | 15 September 1917 | Alexander Kerensky |
| Alexey Nikitin | Social Democratic Labour Party (Menshevik) | 15 September 1917 | 7 November 1917 | Alexander Kerensky |

## Russian SFSR
### 1917–1930

| Minister | Party | Term of Office | Term of Office | Head of State |
| Alexei Rykov | Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolshevik) | 8 November 1917 | 17 November 1917 | Lev Kamenev |
| Grigory Petrovsky | Communist Party | 17 November 1917 | 30 March 1919 | Lev Kamenev |
| Grigory Petrovsky | Communist Party | 17 November 1917 | 30 March 1919 | Yakov Sverdlov |
| Grigory Petrovsky | Communist Party | 17 November 1917 | 30 March 1919 | Mikhail Vladimirsky |
| Felix Dzerzhinsky | Communist Party | 30 March 1919 | 6 July 1923 | Mikhail Kalinin |
| Alexander Beloborodov | Communist Party | 30 August 1923 | 3 December 1927 | Mikhail Kalinin |
| Vladimir Tolmachyov | Communist Party | 2 January 1928 | 15 December 1930 | Mikhail Kalinin |

### 1955–1966

| Minister | Party | Term of office | Term of office | Head of state |
| Nikolay Stakhanov | Communist Party | 22 February 1955 | 21 July 1961 | Mikhail Tarasov |
| Nikolay Stakhanov | Communist Party | 22 February 1955 | 21 July 1961 | Nikolay Ignatov |
| Nikolay Stakhanov | Communist Party | 22 February 1955 | 21 July 1961 | Nikolay Organov |
| Vadim Tikunov | Communist Party | 21 July 1961 | 17 September 1966 | Nikolay Organov |
| Vadim Tikunov | Communist Party | 21 July 1961 | 17 September 1966 | Nikolay Ignatov |

### 1989–1992

| Minister | Party | Term of office | Term of office | Head of state |
| Vasily Trushin | Communist Party | 27 October 1989 | September 1990 | Vitaly Vorotnikov |
| Vasily Trushin | Communist Party | 27 October 1989 | September 1990 | Boris Yeltsin |
| Viktor Barannikov | Independent | 8 September 1990 | 13 September 1991 | Boris Yeltsin |
| Andrey Dunayev | Communist Party | 13 September 1991 | 15 January 1992 | Boris Yeltsin |

## Russian Federation

| Minister | Party | Term of office | Term of office | President |
| General of the army Viktor Yerin | Independent | 15 January 1992 | 30 June 1995 | Boris Yeltsin |
| General of the army Anatoly Kulikov | Independent | 7 July 1995 | 23 March 1998 | Boris Yeltsin |
| Colonel general Pavel Maslov (acting) | Independent | 23 March 1998 | 30 March 1998 | Boris Yeltsin |
| Colonel general Sergei Stepashin | Independent | 30 March 1998 | 12 May 1999 | Boris Yeltsin |
| Colonel general Vladimir Vasilyev (acting) | Independent | 12 May 1999 | 21 May 1999 | Boris Yeltsin |
| Colonel general Vladimir Rushailo | Independent | 21 May 1999 | 28 March 2001 | Boris Yeltsin |
| Colonel general Vladimir Rushailo | Independent | 21 May 1999 | 28 March 2001 | Vladimir Putin |
| Boris Gryzlov | United Russia | 28 March 2001 | 24 December 2003 | Vladimir Putin |
| General of the army Rashid Nurgaliyev | United Russia | 24 December 2003 | 21 May 2012 | Vladimir Putin |
| General of the army Rashid Nurgaliyev | United Russia | 24 December 2003 | 21 May 2012 | Dmitry Medvedev |
| General of the police Vladimir Kolokoltsev | United Russia | 21 May 2012 | Incumbent | Vladimir Putin |